Où est Ken?
By JAAHR
pop|eye
Popeye the Junkie #00
By Just a kid dying up
Colors
This site uses colors from the palette popeye designed by COLOURlover.
The first appearance of Popeye in the Thimble Theater daily strip (1929).
Art by Elzie Crisler Segar.
About
As the New Year rolled in, Popeye the Sailor, the fictional hero created by the Illinois artist Elzie Crisler Segar (1894-1938), felt into the public domain. The current EU laws restrict the rights of authors to 70 years after their death.1 The copyright expiry means that anyone can print & sell posters, t-shirts and even create new comic strips featuring the iconic character who use to generate billions of Euros in annual sales without the need for authorisation or to make royalty payments. Mark Owen, an intellectual property specialist at the law firm Harbottle & Lewis, said: “Popeye is one of the first of the famous 20th-century cartoon characters to fall out of copyright. Betty Boop and ultimately Mickey Mouse will follow.”2
This experimental Tumblelog is dedicated to public creations featuring characters or parts from Popeye the Sailor. If you wish to create something new related to Popeye the Sailor, or if you already created something like a comic strip, a drawing, a poster, a song, a t-shirt, a video, a writing, etc. please do not hesitate to share. It can be a long research paper about the influences of Popeye the Sailor in the 20th Century’s popular culture or simply a drawing of your child - it doesn’t matter, everything will be published!
There’s only one simple instruction: send either the original work or a link to the original work with a title, a (nick)name and eventually an URL to pigeon.trap@online.fr.
